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From
the office of the Provost Brandeis University: Teaching
innovation grants focus on innovations in teaching and student
assessment, with special preference given to proposals that look at
ways of addressing issues of diversity and inclusion, and to team
teaching/interdisciplinary course design. Research innovation awards
are aimed at early stage research to initiate innovative scholarly
inquiry and creative activities that have the potential for
significant, sustained impact (Aug 2nd 2016)...

Background and purpose: Effects of high-intensity exercise on endurance, mobility and gait speed of adults with chronic moderate-to-severe acquired brain injury (ABI) were investigated. It was hypothesized that intensive exercise would be associated with improvements in impairment and activity limitation measures...
To read more click here for
more information about this revealing article in Brian Injury
Journal by Informa - Taylor & Francis.

On Thursday, December 10, 2015 a half-day forum entitled “Severe Brain Injury in Massachusetts: Assessing the Continuum of Care."
was presented at the at the Omni Parker House in Boston, Ma.
This important forum examines treatment and service disparities for survivors of severe brain injury in light of coverage expansions and health care system and financing changes under state and national reform. The research
quantifies the problems, costs, and the potential consequences to both the brain injury survivors and the state as a whole. The forum explores potential options and action steps to reduce disparities and move towards a more equitable distribution of critical resources.
Laura is first author on this issue brief for the Massachusetts Health Policy Forum,
Heller School, Brandeis University. Dr Doug Katz Professor of
Neurology Braintree Rehabilitation Hospital spoke about the
importance of the brief, a number of distinguished panelists and
moderators spoke on behalf of the findings and need for support as
well.

The Massachusetts Health Policy Forum was created in 1998 to bring public and private health care leaders together to engage in focused discussion on critical health policy challenges facing the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Modeled after the successful National Health Policy Forum of George Washington University, the Massachusetts Forum conducts approximately four forums per year for an invited audience of health care leaders and legislators.

For more information about this forum Severe Brain Injury in Massachusetts: Assessing the Continuum of Care,
a copy of the issue brief itself, and a brilliantly done video shown at the beginning of the Massachusetts Health Policy Forum
entitled "A video testimony from Acquired Brain Injury (ABI) Survivors for Severe Brain Injury in Massachusetts Accessing the Continuum of Care",
and a brief radio interview with CBS WBZ 1030AM News Radio's Diane
Stern and Mary Blake please click here or the heading above to
visit the Research and Other Projects section of our website.

Ronald Berger and Laura Lorenz Editors. This groundbreaking text makes an intervention on behalf of disability studies into the broad field of qualitative inquiry. Ronald Berger and Laura Lorenz
(Ed), introduce readers to a range of issues involved in doing qualitative research on disabilities by bringing together a collection of scholarly work that supplements their own contributions and covers a variety of qualitative methods: participant observation, interviewing and interview coding, focus groups, autoethnography, life history, narrative analysis, content analysis, and participatory visual methods.

The chapters are framed in terms of the relevant methodological issues involved in the research, bringing in substantive findings to illustrate the fruits of the methods. In doing so, the book covers a range of physical, sensory, and cognitive impairments. For more information about
this book please click here...

Videos:Talking with
Pictures*
Supportive Living Inc Lexington, MA - Talking with Pictures (2015).
Talking with pictures is a participatory project that looks with
fresh eyes at community integration of older adults with brain
injury and other neurological conditions...
For more information about this project please click
here or
the image above.
Video
(9:54 Min).

O’Neil-Pirozzi, TM,
Lorenz, LS, Demore-Taber, M, Samayoa, S. (September 2015). There
will be some changes made: A survivor perspective on post-acquired brain injury residential transition.
Primary objective: Brain injury survivors experience many
transitions post-injury and it is important that they experience
these in the most supportive and integrative ways possible. This
study provided a group of chronic brain injury survivors the
opportunity to share their insights and experience of residential
transition and to suggest strategies to help maximize the transition
experience and outcomes...Informa Healthcare: Brain Injury,
Taylor & Francis.
For more information on this article please click
here

Lorenz, Laura S. (2011,
Online February 18th).
A
Way Into Empathy: A 'Case' of
Photo-elicitation in Illness Research. Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine, 15,
3, May 2011, pp 259-276, Special Number on ‘Another way of knowing: art, disease, and
illness experience.’ Guest Editors,
Alan Radley and
Susan Bell.
Read more on this paper by clicking
here.